Prescription medications help treat conditions, manage symptoms and reduce pain. However, prescription mistakes are extremely common in the health care community, and medication errors may cause severe consequences for patients. Prescription errors may happen in...
Medication Errors
What questions should you ask your pharmacist?
When you are prescribed medication to help treat symptoms you may be experiencing, chances are you listen closely to your doctor's suggestions for how to take the prescription that has been recommended. While health care professionals have knowledgeable insight about...
How patients can help prevent medication errors
Patients rely on medical professionals in New Jersey to get them back on their feet, not knock them off their feet with medical blunders. Unfortunately, medical errors are quite common, but, thankfully, patients can do their part to prevent unnecessary mistakes. The...
What Is Polypharmacy?
In a previous blog, we discussed polypharmacy and how it related to the potential for loss of balance and slip-and-fall accidents. In this blog, we'll discuss the dangers of combining medications and the hazards patients face with this growing trend. There's nothing...
Report: Infusion pumps still pose significant health hazards
A recent report from ECRI Institute (formerly known as Emergency Care Research Institute), a prominent nonprofit organization that works to improve patient care, names infusion pump errors as the top health care technology hazard for 2017. The report should raise...
